Holy shit, that bookstore!
Yeah, we're building a race of frog-people. It's a good time
Xander ,'Selfless'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Miracleman - Dec 19, 2007 4:55:18 am PST #4519 of 28260
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
sumi - Dec 19, 2007 5:11:04 am PST #4520 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
Brandon Sanderson chosen to finish the 12th Wheel of Time book.
flea - Dec 19, 2007 8:08:16 am PST #4521 of 28260
information libertarian
I read sumi's link first as Susan Sarandon and was all, "Is there nothing that woman can't do?"
sumi - Dec 19, 2007 8:09:59 am PST #4522 of 28260
Art Crawl!!!
Hee.
Aims - Dec 19, 2007 8:10:55 am PST #4523 of 28260
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Holy shit, that bookstore!
It is *that* bookstore, isn't it?
Miracleman - Dec 19, 2007 8:12:20 am PST #4524 of 28260
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
It is *that* bookstore, isn't it?
If by "*that*" you mean the one I wrote about? No.
If you mean by "*that*" "Jaysus Christy and the Pips, *that* is a goddamn awesome fucking bookstore, holy fuck-crackers", then, yes.
Hil R. - Dec 28, 2007 10:07:39 am PST #4525 of 28260
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I kind of dislike the cold metal shelves, when the space cries out for wood, sort of a roodscreen type thing.
But, what a nice thing to do with that space.
Yes. This.
I finished reading The Golden Compass last night. Wow. Want more book! (I'm visiting my parents right now. They're both working today, so I have no car to get to a bookstore. Going a bit crazy with Want More Book!)
The one line toward the end, the "Think of Adam and Eve like imaginary numbers," just had me blinking with how utterly perfect it was. And I don't think that was the reaction Pullman intended, but whatever. I also spent a while last night looking up various churches' doctrines of original sin , to figure out what Lord Asriel was talking about in the last few chapters.
Miracleman - Dec 31, 2007 8:46:38 am PST #4526 of 28260
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I finished "Soon I Will Be Invincible" the other day. I gotta say...it was okay, I guess.
It was kinda irritating, though. There was no sense of...anything, really. All the characters came across as distant, disaffected jerk-offs. And I don't object to that on the basis of them superheroes/supervillains, I object to that on the basis of "Why the fuck should I care enough about you assholes to finish the book?"
And, not to sound arrogant or anything, but I left the book with the grumbling feeling that it would have been better if I had written it. Which either makes me a colossal egomaniac, or makes the author...not that good.
Volans - Dec 31, 2007 10:00:40 am PST #4527 of 28260
move out and draw fire
No, it's something in the book. I left it with the feeling that it would have been better if you'd written it.
Miracleman - Dec 31, 2007 10:13:23 am PST #4528 of 28260
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I left it with the feeling that it would have been better if you'd written it.
If you're serious, I'm seriously touched.
Another thing that pisses me off is that I have this superhero book idea...but now I'm afraid it'll get compared to SIWBI. And that would suck like Dr. Vaccuum's Ultra Suck Device of Doom.